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Self-flagellation
Alan Mutter:
Customers only buy products – or, in the case of newspapers, use them for free on the Internet – because they see a value in them. They don’t do it because they feel sorry for the vendor or the vendor feels sorry for himself.
Yet, newspapers can’t seem to stop their incessant self-flagellation over the [...]
Posted in Print Culture Also tagged Alan Mutter, newspapers, Reflections of a Newsosaur Comments closed
Foley: “We will witness the collective suicide of scores of news organizations”
I missed this back in August, but it’s worth a look even now. Stephen Foley writes in The Independent that newspapers that follow Rupert Murdoch’s lead and try to charge for their content may be signing a collective suicide pact.
It’s desperate stuff. It won’t work, and if newspaper executives on both sides of the Atlantic follow [...]
Posted in New Media, Print Culture Also tagged journalism, paywalls, Rupert Murdoch, Stephen Foley, The Independent Comments closed
Why it’s bad to cite iTunes as proof that micropayments will work
Forgive me for posting Patrick Thornton’s whole paragraph without much in the way of comment, but I don’t think it needs much.
Yes, Apple makes money off of micro transactions on the iTunes store and does sell songs for $0.69–1.29. First, there is a huge difference between selling a song for 99 cents and selling an article [...]
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